[PATCH 3.16 13/16] KVM: use after free in kvm_ioctl_create_device()

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Fri Mar 22 2019 - 01:24:43 EST


3.16.64-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit a0f1d21c1ccb1da66629627a74059dd7f5ac9c61 upstream.

We should move the ops->destroy(dev) after the list_del(&dev->vm_node)
so that we don't use "dev" after freeing it.

Fixes: a28ebea2adc4 ("KVM: Protect device ops->create and list_add with kvm->lock")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -2342,10 +2342,10 @@ static int kvm_ioctl_create_device(struc

ret = anon_inode_getfd(ops->name, &kvm_device_fops, dev, O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC);
if (ret < 0) {
- ops->destroy(dev);
mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
list_del(&dev->vm_node);
mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
+ ops->destroy(dev);
return ret;
}